Milwaukee Rally Selects Fisher House Wisconsin as Charity of Choice

Sept. 1, 2011 - PRLog -- MILWAUKEE (August 31, 2011) – The Milwaukee Rally, a free-admission national motorcycle rally produced by the Harley-Davidson Dealers of Metro Milwaukee over Labor Day weekend, has selected Fisher House Wisconsin to receive proceeds from its 10th annual event’s raffle promotional campaign.  Volunteers from Fisher House Wisconsin will help run the Milwaukee Rally’s raffle booths at all four metropolitan Harley Davidson dealerships from Thursday, September 1 through Sunday, September 4.  The four rally locations include Hal’s Harley-Davidson in New Berlin, the House of Harley-Davidson in Greenfield, Milwaukee Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee, and Suburban Harley-Davidson in Thiensville.

“The 10th Annual Milwaukee Rally selected Fisher House Wisconsin to become our charity of choice after owners from the area Harley-Davidson dealerships brought this great organization to our attention,” commented Ed Hanrahan, owner of Open Road Events and current Milwaukee Rally organizer.  “As we learned more about the Fisher House mission to serve our nation’s military and veterans’ families during their greatest time of need, all of the area dealerships agreed this is a worthy non-profit cause that our event participants would support – many of whom are military veterans themselves,” said Hanrahan.

“The opportunity for Fisher House Wisconsin to participate in the 2011 Milwaukee Rally presents a great way for us to partner with an iconic Milwaukee event which is tied to local area Harley-Davidson businesses,” said Dan Buttery, president of Fisher House Wisconsin’s Board of Directors.  “Fisher House Wisconsin volunteers are excited to be involved in the festivities of the Milwaukee Rally while supporting our larger mission.”

Fisher House Wisconsin is working closely with the Fisher House Foundation in Rockville, Maryland, to manage and provide oversight of fundraising for the Wisconsin project.  Fisher House Wisconsin is required to raise $3 million of the $6 million needed to build the Milwaukee VA facility.  Construction of the Milwaukee-based Fisher House is slated to begin in early 2013.  Currently there are 54 Fisher House facilities throughout the United States and in Germany.

About Fisher House Wisconsin
Fisher House Wisconsin is a nonprofit corporation based in Wisconsin.  The mission of Fisher House Wisconsin is to help raise funds to build Wisconsin’s first Fisher House facility at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee.  A Fisher House is a "home away from home" for military and veterans’ families to be close to a loved one during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury.  Learn more about Fisher House Wisconsin at www.FisherHouseWI.org.

Follow Fisher House Wisconsin on Twitter:  twitter.com/fisherhousewi
Information regarding the 2011 Milwaukee Rally can be viewed online at:  http://www.milwaukeerally.com/index.html

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